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Liopleurodon feroxNamed by: Henri Emile Sauvage, 1873
Diet: Carnivore (Prey included ammonites, fish such as the 50-foot Leedsichthys, sharks such as Hybodus, thallatosuchian marine crocodilians such as Metriorhynchus, plesiosaurs such as Cryptocleidus, and ichthyosaurs such as Ophthalmosaurus)
Type: Pliosaur (short-necked plesiosaur)
Size: 23 feet (7 meters) long and 3 quarters of a ton [the original series made it oversized, up to over 80 feet (25 meters) and over a hundred tons]
Region: Northern Europe (England UK, France, Germany, and Russia)
Age: Mid-Late Jurassic (165 to 150.1 million BC; Callovian to Early Tithonian)
Episode: Cruel Sea
Info: The size of an Orca whale and with teeth twice as long as those of Tyrannosaurus's, Liopleurodon was one of the most awesome marine reptiles during the Jurassic period and was the alpha predator in the vast ancient Tethys Sea in what is now Northern Europe. The arrangement of the nostrils shows that it had a directional sense of smell and like modern sharks, it could sense blood in the water of fresh kills.
On 11/11/2016, I updated it and gave it a fin on its tail as its now believed that plesiosaurs and pliosaurs have
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You didn't have to. I was just joking.
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No doubt they oversized it vastly, but 0.75t at a TL of 7m on the other hand is far too low. McHenry (2009) estimated a 10.5m Kronosaurus at 11t based on a volumetric model, so assuming isometry a 7t Liopleurodon would be more like 3.3t. Even if it was less robust, it would probably be in a similar ballpark.
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More oversized than even the JP Velociraptor.
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Yeah.
And speaking of the Cruel Sea, I saw you said "Eustreptospondylus was the only theropod because they didn't bother to add Compsognathus or Archaeopteryx".
If those two were in, do you think they'd depict the Archaeopteryx as a flappy bird or the Compsognathus as a scaly Zerg Rush pack hunter?
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Probably not. Both would have been depicted as something like domestic cats.
Eustreptospondylus lived before the rest of the cast so shouldn't be in there.
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1: Oh, nice.
2: Yeah. However, it'll be in nearly everyone's WWD remake due to no European Late Jurassic megalosaur (other than that stupidly powerful Torvosaurus) actually existing. Or should the little guys take its place?
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Let the little guys take its place. Besides, you can use the Archeopteryx to set up the next episode on dromaeosaurs.
Personally, I'd just let the sauropterygians and thalattosuchians steal the show.
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Hey mind adding the Triceratops on the list but not as a carcass?
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And have T-Rex the best for last.
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And make sure the word "Rex" is at the end of Tyrannosaurus.
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i never stopped having nightmares after i saw this guy in the film
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¿Jurassic World Mosasaurus vs Walking Whit Dinosaurs Liopleurodon?
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The JW mosasaur is bigger. Proportionally, though, it's less oversized.
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The two Marine Reptiles are soo overzised. The Mosasaurus is bigger in the movie and the Liopleurodon in the T.V Series.
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Only Mosasaurus in JW was oversized , not Liopleurodon in WWD .
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I was thinking about doing Utahraptor with both the original and another one with feathers!
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Am I the only one who think the BBC needs to remake the series with the updated dinosaurs?
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It would make sense, wouldn't it? I mean, they've already updated all of their dinosaurs. So, why not make a new series?
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That would be the best thing. I hope that if they were they would add more (which they obviously should).
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If only there was some kind of petition we could make or signed to get them to do it.
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